The ghost of CPAN Days past

How many releases were done on previous CPAN Days? I know you've been dying to find out, so here are a few graphs, and I'll also compare with the top days in CPAN history. If 100 people each do one release on this coming CPAN Day (16th August, UTC), then it'd be the best CPAN Day yet. If between us we manager 151 releases, that would be the highest day ever.

CPAN and PAUSE record their timestamps in UTC, as all sane systems do. So if you're planning to release on CPAN, please take that into consideration.

The following chart shows the number of releases to CPAN on 16th August each year:

The top 3 years were 2012 (99), 2013 (75), and 2010 (66). I think we should be able to beat those. Hell, on a good day INGY can get close to that on his own, and SHARYANTO could do most of that in a coffee beak.

So how many different authors uploaded on CPAN Days?

A slightly different picture here, and the top year was 2010, when 53 different people uploaded on CPAN Day.

How does the number of releases compare to the highest days ever on CPAN, not just on CPAN Days? Here are the top 5:

The highest number of people releasing in a day was 24th November 2009: 74 different people uploaded 111 releases.

Anyway, back on topic: on CPAN Day this year, do one or more releases. Over the next few weeks I'll post some ideas for things you might do to existing dists. BARBIE: maybe you could finish your crazy quest by doing all your remaining releases on CPAN Day... :-)